Italian Miniature and Marionette Theatre

Event Information

Venue(s):
Stuyvesant Institute

Manager / Director:
M. [manager] Seraphin

Conductor(s):
Herr [cond. Marionette Theatre] Hartmann

Price: $.50; .25 children

Event Type:
Variety / Vaudeville

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
29 June 2012

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

14 Jun 1865, 8:00 PM
15 Jun 1865, 8:00 PM
16 Jun 1865, 8:00 PM
17 Jun 1865, 2:30 PM
17 Jun 1865, 8:00 PM

Program Details



Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
Musical interlude
2)
Beauty and the beast, [fairy extravaganza]
Text Author: Planché
3)
Harlequinade, unidentified

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 11 June 1865, 7.

     Mr. Seraphin is the “grandson of the founder of the ‘Marionette Theatres’ in Paris, Vienna, Milan, Cologne and London.”

2)
Announcement: New-York Times, 12 June 1865, 5.
3)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 13 June 1865, 7.

     “First Appearance in America of the renowned Italian Marionette Company, From Paris, In Grand Fairy Extravaganzas, Musical and Comic Interludes, Grand Ballet, Brilliant Harlequinades. . . . The music under the direction of Herr Hartmann.”